2011 Stories by ABBY KOENIG

published Sep 15, 2011

As soon as you enter 8th Dimension Comics & Games, the happiest person in the entire world greets you. That's Jeremy Bulloch, the store's president and co-owner, and why shouldn't he be ecstatic? He i...
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published Sep 15, 2011

Football season is officially here and Sunday is no longer a day of rest: It is a day of Bud Light and Cheetos. For your average football fan, Sundays begin at 7:30 a.m. with the NFL Network's Total...
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published Sep 13, 2011

What is it with Hollywood and its lack of a new concept? We're fine with a good sequel, and we can even handle a third installment if done correctly. In fact there have been quite a few excellent thre...
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published Sep 13, 2011

The fashion industry is known for a lot of things, but shying away from controversy is not one of them. In fact, it's just the opposite. The industry knows that sexy sells and scandal reigns king. Fo...
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published Sep 12, 2011

All about the Internet we keep reading about the ridiculously hot Ryan Gosling/Carey Mulligan make out scene in the upcoming movie Drive. We've watched the exclusive clip (multiple times) and we will ...
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published Sep 09, 2011

You gotta love the industry for its artistic, often bizarre, concoctions. With Fashion Week upon us, we are sure to see some very inventive (and impractical) threads grace the runway. But even more of...
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published Sep 06, 2011

How do you describe a sucky commercial in just 140 characters? Last week the microblog site, Twitter, showcased its first commercial to really, really bad reviews. From Adweek to MSNBC to Gawker, eve...
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published Aug 31, 2011

Not only did we not realize that Mark and Donnie Wahlberg had a third brother, now we've found out that the whole Boston family are restaurateurs and are in the process of opening another. This time t...
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published Aug 30, 2011

At some point in history, the CW decided that its prime-time programming would be geared specifically toward middle-American teens and fuel their desires for Manolos and vampires by airing poorly scr...
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published Aug 29, 2011

The beautiful people came out to play Friday night for the Houston Museum of Natural Science's last Mixers & Elixirs ever. The museum was packed from the Texas Wildlife to the Malacology exhibit, wit...
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published Aug 25, 2011

The Third Ward Community takes center stage with Project Row Houses' (PRH) summer student installation, and last night, the studio held a special slide show presentation of the seven artists and the...
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published Aug 24, 2011

Houston is a transient city. Every day it becomes increasingly difficult to find a Houstonian from Houston. According to the Greater Houston Partnership, net migration accounts for 49 percent of Hous...
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published Aug 22, 2011

With weekend one of the Houston Fringe Festival under our belts, we ventured back for more indie theater, dance and comedy. This weekend brought acts from across the pond, stories from around the glob...
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published Aug 22, 2011

After seven years, Mixers & Elixirs, the Houston Museum of Natural Science's popular prehistoric dance party, is going the way of the dinosaur. This Friday marks the end of the series forever. Never ...
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published Aug 18, 2011

Houston never ceases to amaze us. Just when we thought we had seen it all (or a lot of it, anyway), something completely wild and brand-new pops into our inbox. This time, it came in the form of bloo...
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published Aug 17, 2011

No one can say that the Japanese aren't progressive. They've cornered the market on electronics, Anime, robots, Hello Kitty and Pocky Sticks. Americans love to jump on Japan's more efficient mini-band...
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published Aug 16, 2011

To celebrate 100 years in the business, the Santikos Theater in Tomball is holding Tuesday night special screenings of some of the most random movies you can think of. It's their Centennial Celebratio...
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published Aug 15, 2011

Houston Fringe Festival Wrap-Up -- Weekend One
This past weekend was the kickoff to the Houston Fringe Festival. Art Attack wanted to cover as much of the weekend's events as we could, so I took on th...
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published Aug 12, 2011

If you've ever gone to a gallery opening or art exhibit and wondered, "How do they do that?" you can now find out first hand. DARKE gallery, nestled in the backstreets of Rice Military, invites the p...
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published Aug 11, 2011

Today, August 11, is Steve "Woz" Wozniak's 61st birthday. We know, 61 is really an insignificant birthday for us to be mentioning it. Normally, once you pass the big 6-0, any birthdays you have up unt...
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published Aug 05, 2011

For a moment we thought we had just entered the Land of Make Believe when we read that Mr. Rogers is coming back to television. This is no imaginary world -- the man, the myth, the sweater will retur...
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published Aug 03, 2011

They say one (wo)man's trash is another (wo)man's treasure, and Lari Gibbons has to agree. The Associate Professor of Studio Arts at the University of North Texas stumbled upon a 150-year-old clamshe...
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published Aug 03, 2011

At one point in the not so distant past, facial hair was considered creepy. The mustache in particular didn't have very positive connotations. Slang words such as "molestache" and "creepstache" were ...
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published Aug 01, 2011

Yesterday afternoon, Art Attack got its toprock on at the grand opening of the Break Free Community Center. When we ventured over to the south side of Houston for what turned out to be a completely p...
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